Materials: Chemicals were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich BV and used as received: the surfactants, sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl)sulphosuccinate (Na-AOT, 99%) and 4(1,1,3,3-Tetramethylbutyl)phenyl-polyethylene glycol (Triton-X 100, 99.999%); the solvents, n-heptane (99.9%) and toluene (≥99.5%); the metal precursors, chloroplatinic acid hydrate (99.9%), iron chloride (≥99%), cobalt acetate tetrahydrate ...

BACKGROUND No reagents have been shown to be effective in preventing wheezing attacks provoked by acute respiratory tract illnesses (ARTIs) in preschool children. New therapeutic agents and preventive strategies are needed. OBJECTIVES We assessed the effect of OM-85 BV (Broncho-Vaxom; OM Pharma, Geneva, Switzerland) in preventing ARTI-provoked wheezing attacks in preschool children with recur...

Over the last decades, use of high-resolution imaging systems to assess bone microstructural parameters has grown immensely. Yet, no standard defining quantification these exists. It been reported that different voxel size and/or segmentation techniques lead results. However, effect evaluation software not investigated so far. Therefore, aim this study was compare obtained with two commonly use...

Given a function f 2 L 2 (Q), Q := 0; 1) 2 and a real number t > 0, let U (f; t) := inf g2BV(Q) kf ? gk 2 L 2 (I) + t V Q (g); where the innmum is taken over all functions g 2 BV of bounded variation on I. This and related extremal problems arise in several areas of mathematics such as interpolation of operators and statistical estimation, as well as in digital image processing. Techniques for ...

Suboptimal nutrition can alter immune function and increase susceptibility to infections. Previous research has focused on the association of nutrition, particularly micronutrient vitamins and minerals and, in more recent decades, dietary fats and fatty acids, with a spectrum of infections ranging from measles, diarrheal disease, acute and chronic respiratory tract infections, and more recently...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common vaginal disorder, characterized by depletion of the normal lactobacillus-dominant microbiota and overgrowth of commensal anaerobic bacteria. This study aimed to investigate the composition of the vaginal microbiota in women of reproductive age (healthy women and women with BV), with the view of developing molecular criteria fo...